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Overall a disappointing and lackluster #VMA. Snoop was phoning it in, everything skewed heavily Gen-X, and there were barely any top tier artists there. MTV seems to be accelerating their slide into irrelevance.

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Ducking wut? Of course, it is the VMAs after all. Congratulations to Taylor for making the most out of the least. #VMA

Well, now I just want some ice cream 🍦#VMA

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Sorry sombr you're no George Michael. Thank goodness Raye and Adam Lambert were there. #VMA

So um, does MTV know something about Madonna that we don't? They're giving her all the flowers 🌸 #VMA

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I guess since MTV knew Taylor wasn't gonna win any regular awards this year, they might as well make one up.

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Madonna has now won two VMAs. I guess that's better than Taylor Swift?

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Ned @nedinthecloud.com · 26/09/2026

Here I am, watching the VMAs in this the year of our Lord 2026.

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Chat, does Phil Collins low-key slap?

Ned @nedinthecloud.com · 26/09/2026

Finding great music has always required a bit of effort, and that hasn't changed with Spotify. Extra points to the post for citing CRJ.

Ned @nedinthecloud.com · 24/09/2026

Reverse rainbow 🌈 three days running 🎉

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Ned @nedinthecloud.com · 23/09/2026

I'm starting to think that maybe Jabra doesn't make very durable earbuds... *SIGH*

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Ned @nedinthecloud.com · 23/09/2026

Alcest lives up to the hype.

Ned @nedinthecloud.com · 22/09/2026

Bought an espresso maker after our trip to Italy. Hands down one of the best purchases of the year.

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Ned @nedinthecloud.com · 22/09/2026

Gonna see Deafheaven and Alcest tomorrow. So dope 😎

Ned @nedinthecloud.com · 21/09/2026

My wife and I often refer to fitting everything in the refrigerator as fridge jenga. Technically it should be fridge Tetris, but I always mess it up. Weird.

Ned @nedinthecloud.com · 21/09/2026

Boy that guy from The New Radicals really called it with Marilyn Manson.

Ned @nedinthecloud.com · 20/09/2026

Pretty sure Behind the Bastards has done several of these if you need a quick fix.

Ned @nedinthecloud.com · 20/09/2026

I did not have "Macklemore becomes relevant" on my 2026 bingo card.

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Ned @nedinthecloud.com · 18/09/2026

I have an event on my calendar for October 1st called "Did the AI bubble pop?" I don't remember when or why I added this.

Ned @nedinthecloud.com · 18/09/2026

Ah, I have found the brand. I shall purchase in due time.

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Ned @nedinthecloud.com · 16/09/2026

Basically everything about running open weight models is a slog. Projects are out of date, versions are incompatible, and the docs are... well they aren't great. Feels like everything is moving too fast to be stable and we're all tao dancing on quicksand.

Ned @nedinthecloud.com · 16/09/2026

Okay everyone. You can calm down. The dishwasher has been fixed.

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Ned @nedinthecloud.com · 15/09/2026

OMG what a business opportunity. Can't wait to get my 30%

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Ned @nedinthecloud.com · 15/09/2026

It's my dishwasher. Sorry everyone.

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Ned @nedinthecloud.com · 14/09/2026

Clearly I've been listening to too much DCC. Every time someone writes in all caps, I can't help but hear it in the voice of Princess Donut. 👑🙀

Ned @nedinthecloud.com · 14/09/2026

Feeling cute. Might delete later.

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Ned @nedinthecloud.com · 12/09/2026

I do recommend getting the flu and COVID shot 💉. I do not recommend planning to do anything else the next day.

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Ned @nedinthecloud.com · 12/09/2026

Is it done? Yes. Is it done done? No.

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Ned @nedinthecloud.com · 11/09/2026

Dishwasher is broken. Guess we're just throwing everything out and eating off the floor.

Ned @nedinthecloud.com · 05/09/2026

My son wanted a CD player for Christmas last year and he loves going to the record store. The kids are alright 😌

Ned @nedinthecloud.com · 05/09/2026

Razor Scooters - "Fuck your shins."

Ned @nedinthecloud.com · 04/09/2026

Have you found a good respooler? I've tried printing one and it did not work well.

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Ned @nedinthecloud.com · 03/09/2026

Cardboard spools for filament are trash. That is all.

Ned @nedinthecloud.com · 03/09/2026

Eight hours of PowerPoint slide making today. I earned the shit out of this Ben & Jerry's.

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Ned @nedinthecloud.com · 29/08/2026

Today's adventure was in using llama.cpp to save a trained model as a GGUF file and then quantize it. Turns out using transformers v5 to train led to compatibility issues with the scripts in the llama.cpp repo. Gotta love the cutting edge.

Ned @nedinthecloud.com · 28/08/2026

I know intellectually that Nvidia GPUs have better software support and a more mature ecosystem. But watching a five year old 3090 beat out an AMD card from last year by a sizeable margin? There's knowing and experiencing. Just wild.

Ned @nedinthecloud.com · 25/08/2026

It's been 25 years since I touched calculus and 20 since I did algebra in any serious way. I thought I'd never need it. Now I'm slogging through linear algebra and dot products trying to under a paper on why PiSSA isn't just a Boston expression.

Ned @nedinthecloud.com · 25/08/2026

The further I go down the AI rabbit hole, the more complexity I find. Sure you can train a model with SFT and barely know anything. But once you start wondering what a learning rate is, buckle the fuck up we're going to math town.

Ned @nedinthecloud.com · 25/08/2026

Until a few weeks ago SFT, DPO, and GRPO meant nothing to me. Now I'm thinking hard about reward functions and balancing batch size with completion length.

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Ned @nedinthecloud.com · 24/08/2026

All I want to do is run stupid long distances and eat fresh pasta 🍝 #runsky #trailrunning

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Ned @nedinthecloud.com · 19/08/2026

I've been relearning Linear Algebra on Khan Academy. Pretty good so far.

Ned @nedinthecloud.com · 17/08/2026

What happens when your single cloud storage provider vanishes overnight, AI models inch closer to autonomous zero-day discovery, and NASA patches a spacecraft 13 billion miles away using clever thermodynamics? #chaoslever pod.chaoslever.com/lost-archive...

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Ned @nedinthecloud.com · 16/08/2026

Ramping up for a 50k in late September. #trailrunning #runsky

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Ned @nedinthecloud.com · 15/08/2026

Best $10 I'll spend all year.

Email from Cards Against Humanity welcoming me to the Elon Musk is a sad little bitch with no friends monument design committee